Viva Varda! Exhibition Explores Agnès Varda's Polymorphic Worlds at Bologna's Galleria Modernissimo

The exhibition 'Viva Varda! Il cinema è donna' opens at Galleria Modernissimo in Bologna, Italy, running until January 10, 2027. The show is dedicated to Agnès Varda, the French filmmaker, photographer, feminist, and visual artist known for her 1962 masterpiece 'Cléo from 5 to 7'. The venue itself is cinematic: a 1,200-square-meter space accessed via a tunnel built in the 1960s as an underpass, recently converted into an exhibition area and cinema entrance. The exhibition is curated by Florence Tissot with artistic direction by Rosalie Varda, Agnès Varda's daughter. It highlights Varda's polymorphic and restless oeuvre, emphasizing her practice of displacing cinema as art.